As You Like It

On the forest lake the person "from nothing to do" killed a Seagull. The symbolism of this story allowed Chekhov to Express the psychologically complex "inextricably unconnected" relationships of the characters living near a beautiful lake, suffering, hoping, searching, but unable to find themselves and their place in life.The most difficult in the fate of Anton Chekhov, but also the most famous and popular play in theaters in the world. Its simplicity, unique theatricality and stage longevity attract Directors and actors who, with each new production, offer the audience to unravel the mystery of the play, in which the author presented the drama of people in the Comedy genre. Famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky offers a new version of the play, insisting that the stage action he staged is exactly the version of "the Seagull" that Chekhov intended it to be.

The play is based on a classic love triangle. This is a story of temptations, disappointments and bitter betrayal, like a plague, that struck three lives on a white summer night – the aristocrat Julie, her father's servant Jean and the maid Christina. This is a story about how one Midsummer night, intoxicating with the riot of nature, including human nature, can change people and make them lose their usual appearance, exposing their animal desires and passions. To turn a happy couple in love into an unhappy, high - born mistress into the slave of their lackey, driven by base passions, and what has always been called love, to turn into a Sizzling vulgar lust. What is this force that so ruthlessly reveals to us the other, animal nature of man, and can it be resisted?

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.

In the second part of this manga adaptation, Tairaku Arihiko, who is a teacher at a local high school, lives with his student Shirakaba Aya and things are becoming steamier. As she becomes aggressive with her love for him he has to navigate his responsibility and job, his cute student and her thug father.

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's journal and writing many of his haikus. A ruminant, poetic, Zen Buddhist observation of nature – a return to the lost paradise of unspoilt nature.

Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an intractable disease at age 29. Satoshi devoted his life to fighting not only the disease but also his rivals, feverishly pursuing the highest title, at risk to his life. Director Yoshitaka Mori (Hyakuhachi (2008), Space Brothers (2012)) depicts Murayama's true struggling life, full of love from his parents and teacher, based on the non-fiction novel written by Yoshio Osaki. Kenichi Matsuyama intensely portrays Satoshi and physically embodies the character.

Live action film adaptation of a romance that was turned into a book after making a splash on the Internet bulletin board “2 Channel.” Humorously depicts a 29-year-old virgin who meets a prostitute, and struggles with love. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Arakawa Under the Bridge.

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.